How are any of you hating on CHASS unless you are engineers? COM majors, if they networked right make WAY above the national average in salary per year and the major is actually fun while learning. BLASPHEMY I know!

Ehhh, I was a CHASS major (English Lit) and I'm afraid I have to agree that most of those degrees are a waste of money. I make a pretty nice income, but it's not related to my degree. If you major in sociology, english, or the like you can expect to struggle out of the gate. It's hard to find a job with those degrees, and the ones that do exist don't pay that well most of the time.

Communications is fine as long as you can line up a job. I know people with COM degrees who went on to do PR work for large firms and I also know people who had to keep working at the same coffee shop that they worked at while getting their COM degrees.

Having a degree in a hard science or in engineering is much more likely to help you land a gig with a nice income than a CHASS degree, thems the facts.

The thing is even though you have a good job how can you be satisfied if it is not related to what you learned in school? nothing you learned is getting applied to your job and that is sad. If you major in a chass discipline grad school is a requirement if you want to get a good job in your field, but a lot of people don't have that outlook

"The thing is even though you have a good job how can you be satisfied if it is not related to what you learned in school? nothing you learned is getting applied to your job and that is sad."

Well, unless I was interested in teaching or doing a lot of research and scholarly writing my English Lit degree was going to be pretty useless. I'll keep this six figure gig I have now, thanks.

I enjoy literature, that's pretty easy to continue doing without becoming an Oxford Don. I had no desire to teach disinterested teenagers about Shakespeare, Aeschylus, and Dante. I was equally unexcited by the prospect of spending the best years of my life analyzing the same play ad nauseam until I got another advanced degree or two and could publish articles that no one outside of an incredibly small circle would ever read.

There are benefits to education beyond simply finding a job in your field. If you get a degree in history you don't need to get a job as a history professor or write a treatise on the fall of the Eastern Roman Empire in order to have made your education worthwhile. The benefits of a classical liberal arts education (which is basically what I did) are more than just getting a job in one of those disciplines later. That's a point often missed by people who utilize college as a path to a certificate verifying their readiness to be employed in a specific field, it's not one that's usually missed by CHASS majors, but I guess you're the exception.

I enjoy COM. I also worked in finance and know that my degree had nothing to do with that, but places will only hire you with a degree now anyways. I will admit it is hard when you get sick of your job and you are willing to go backwards in your career and start in the field you want and that field won't give you a shot.

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